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in the Priests to begin the soldy of the lioiy Scripturt-s, and to cease frurn rnixin, the pure filth with Iti'dizin superstitions, and from preaching a corrupt Christianity to the subjeLas of the British GUltintnetit. • MAILS. /IR): tvLb—l Dublin. Du 1-3 Gottenburgb, ‘Vaterford PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT TWELVP, O'CLOCK. - - 66 3 Omniucs - - dis. Consols, THE SUN. 11OLL'•1 QUIS DICQAH FALSOLI, AUDEAT ? L 0 ND 0 N, THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, 1808. The Article which we present to our, Readers, this day, extraded from The Corunna Gazelle, on the subjed of BUONAPARTE'S absurd attempts to blockade the Continent against England, will, we doubt not, be deemed particularly interesting. The reasoning it contains is built upon solid grounds, and sufficiently exposes the ignorance and folly of that man, Who, whatever may be his military know ledge and capacity, is evidently a mere child in mat ters of commerce, or so blinded by his ambition and revenge, that, in order to gratify those feelings, he is driven to the most visionary and frantic measures, such as would render him the laughing-stock of Eu rope, if, unhappily, he were .not at the same time her scourge and oppresscir. But it is not only for the good sense, the knowledge, and the cogent ar &UM:l'lll3 which this Spanish Document exhibits that it will give pleasure to our Readers, for it shews that Spain possesses able Politicians, as well as undaunt ed heroes anst virtuous Patriots. If such men are suffered to take the lead in that Country, and there can be little doubt that they will do so, Spain can Slave nothing to fear, for her Statesmen will have wisdom to secure that independence which her he , nes hive so powerfully asserted. .It is truly gratifying to find, that though in the midst of warfare, and with the Enemy in their Country, the Spaniards are ca pable of speculating coolly. upon subjeds of general policy, of pointing out the folly of those measures which have been so servilely adopted by many States of Europe, and of holding forth to those States their true interests, as well as the probable consequences of the measuress.alluded to, with respea to the mad man himself, who has ridiculously devised them, and has so oppressively endeavoured to carry them into execution. That they Contain the seeds of his own ruin we can have little doubt, as the misery which he has brought upon so . many Countries of Europe, as well as in America, and the ColonieS of most European States, operating' with the other parts of his conduct, have rendered him the objea of universal disgust and detestation, and the world is impatiently anxious for his downfall. His attempt upbti Spain forms the climax of his turpitude and tblly, and must add contempt to all the other ad verse feelings which the whole of his career has ex cited. His fall, indeed, seems to be rapidly ap proaching, and whenever it may happen, it will raise little surprize in refleding men, who must ra ther be inclined to wonder that his course, marked as it is by every species of depravity, has been suf fered to continue so long. But one of the most in teresting parts of thiS Spanish Article is that which relates to this country ;• which, as it truly says, has bid defiance to all BU ON APA'l'Vrit'S weak endeavours to injure her; and which bas r. rien, in spite of those endeavours, above.. the ,pitifel efforts of ignorance, malevolence, and stupielity7' Letters were yesterday received from Cadiz, dated the 23d ult. They were "bijught by the Redwing they of course bring no additional news,..but they state that the rejoicings in Cadit for the glorious • I, SUCCeSs'of tie Spanish ArmS under General,irA _ Nos, were, as might naturally be expe6ted, unbound ed. It appears from these Letters that some doubts are entertained as to the manner in which the •Ar. ticle in the Capitulation with DUPoNT, respethng the conveyance of the French Troops to France, is. to be carried into execution, for if they are conveyed in Spanish Ships, particularly Ships of War,. the French would, there can be very little doubt, seize them as soon as they reached a French port; and if the French should send Vessels for them, they of course would be captured by our Cruizers. General CASTANOS was, according to these accounts, direEt ng his mdrch to Madrid, where it was supposed he mould artive about the 3d or 4th inst. A report, was yesterday circulated that the Rus sian Fleet in the Tagus had surrendered to Sir C. COTTON. This report was founded upon a Letter, received by a respe6lable House in the City; from a Gentleman on board the Dasher Transport. This Liter, after, stating that the Expedition Under Sir H. BURRARD had made but little way on account of contrary winds, adds, that a Frigate from.the Tagus had informed them that the Russian Fleet was in nnr possession. The Frigate alluded to was probably the Alcmene, which we kno , a; did not bring, any such intelligence. We have no doubt, therefore, Ciat . the report originated in some mistake. Several Letters were yeste:day received from Sir A. WELLESLEY'S Army : some of them are dated On the - Ist inst. On the, morning of that day the sth battalion of the 60th, the 95th, 36th, and 45th, disembarked, ,and marched towards Lavos, where they were to be encamped till the whole were land ed. On the 2cl the Commander ,in Chief proposed to disembark the bib, 9th, and 38th regiments; and on the 3d .the whole of the Troops would be landed. The last to land was General CRAUFURD'S division, consisting of the 40th, 71st, • anti 91st. A proportion of artillery, &c. was disembarked every day. Yesterday, at twelve o'clock,. his MAJESTY arrived in town, from Windsor, and was received at the Queen's Palace, by their Royal Highnesses the Dukes . of YORK KENT. At two o'clock his MAJESTY held a Private Levee, which was attended by- 7 -- The Duke of l'ortland. the Duke of Montrose, Earl Bathurst, Earl Camden, Earl of Chatham, Lord flawkesbury , Lord Heathfield, Lord Somerville, Lord Mulgrave, Mr, Rider, Mr. Perceval, Mr. Grey .11e, and Mr. Canning. The following had the honour of being presented to his MAJESTY : The Rev. Mr. jenkinson, Prebend of Worcester. Co•onti Sir George Smith, on being appointed his Ma jesty's ,Aid.de-Camp. Mr. RIDER laid before his MAJESTY the proceed ings of several Courts Martial. No Council was held ; and his MAJESTY left town for Windsor, at half-past four o'clock. Dispatches were received at the Admiralty this morning from Admiral ROWLEY, Commander in Chief of f Jamaica. Lord MutunAvE will give a Cabinet Dinner this day. The Convoy bound to Oporto, Lisbon, and the Mediterranean, - will sail under convoy of His Ma jesty's Ship Success, from Portsmouth. The Boats belonging lb the Strenuous Gun-brig very gallantly cut out, from under the batteries of Lcuteville, the St. Jaques French Sloop, of Cher bourgh, bound to that dace, on the night of the 7th inst. The Fleets for the East Indies and the Leeward Islands are passed Gravesend. We have received a Letter from an Officer on board a Frigate cruizing in the Gulph of Florida, dated the 20th of May, which states, that notwith standing the Embargo in ail the Ports of the United States of America, that these seas are covered with Vessels under the Ameri6n Flag, some of which are floundering about in • the Gulph, under an ex pectation of being sent into a British port, under a pretext. He adds, the Governor of the Havannah has made a considerable demand of the American merchants residing the're for provisions of all species. A Spanish Schooner, laden with Cochineal, a prize to the Hebe, has been carried into the Mississippi by the people put on board of her from the Frigate. The Elk Brig, Captain COGHLAN, on the New. Pr ovidence station, has of late made some very valuable captures. Extract of another Letter, dated June 30, 1803. — The American Colle6tor. at New Orleans having given up the Vess'el alluded to, to the Spaniards, the English Agent demanded restitution. The Collector, finding himself, some time afterwards, to have erred, offered 20,000 dollars to have the matter adjusted, which has been refused. The Melpomene Frigate, which. took out Vice-Admiral ROWLEY to his command at Jamaica,. has gone down to Vera Cruz for - money, and 'shortly may be expeaed in England. Lieutenants H. S. JONES and W. R. Slit ITU, of theGuerrierre, on the Jamaica station, have been promoted to the rank of Commanders; the former is appointed to the Griffin, a French Ship lately captured by the Baceltante, , off Cape Antonio, on the coast of Cuba ; the latter' to thf. Hunter, vice DICKENS, exchange 4. The advises just received from India, as far as they have yet reached us, represent our affairs in that quarter as wearing the aspett' of the most per feet tranquillity. What particulars have come to our notice, are of a nature no less to engage the attention of the Empire at large, than to embrace the interests of those individuals who may be more immediately concerned in the transa6tions that have there taken place; and it cannot butbe saiistaetoty to observe, that the general result is equAly•tavourable to the general and particular, interests of the Country, We : long since heard of the intrigues of the French Go vernment at the Court of Persia, and of the susses, with which they are supposed to be attended; but we now have the satisfa4ion of knowing, that they have beew:seasonably and ably bpposeti by Colonel MALCUOLM, avhotn Lord MINT() had sent on a spe cial mission . to:Persia, tocounteraii - aild frustrate the L-citemes WhiCiaUONAPARTE has been so long ma turing for the subjugation of our Indian doMinions. I'be British Ship' int he river of Calcutta have cap tured Danish property txy,the amount Of ONE MU.- LION sterling ; and the Russell, 74, Captain CAUL FIELD, has taken a Danish Ship'. with dollars on bOard, amounting to .800,0001. We have also to add, that Admiral DRtTRY has safely arrived in The Fourth Report from the Committee on the Distillation of Sugar and Molasses has been printed. It recommends that 'the planter . should refine his su gar before he imports it, and enters into calculations to prove the advantages of refining in - the West In dies. It also recommends that sugar be employed in fattening cattle. Experiments to' prove the uti lity of this latter plan, it says, are about to be insti tuted, and recommends a redu6tion of the duty on sugar. There were great rejoicings on Sunday at Boulogne, in celebration of BUONAPARtE'S birth-day.—The rockets were seen in the evening from Dover flying in the air in every diredion on . that part of • the , French coast. But the people and the troops at Boulogne knew nothing yet of his disgraceful flight from Bayonne, and that: of JOSEPH from Madrid, with the defeat of the French arms in Spain. It was reported at Corunna that Geri. CASTANOS had intercepted a letter wriven by BUONA PA RTE, ad dressed to DuroNT, ordering him to quit his situa tion, join another division at the French, and with their united force attack the army of Galicia under 'Gen. BLAKE.. COR Au ou ,T 8. (FROM THE COHUNNA PAPER.) Is the Blockade of the Continent against the English praelicable • If the old and the new Continent were under the domination and sovereignty of one sole Monarch, and it were possible that on all the shores, and in the whole circumference, of the earth his orders were Obeyed and executed, unopposed by cogent neces sity and circumstances, then the blockade of the Cbntinent might be praaicable and effeaive. But to ordain, or expe6l, that one kingdom or empire, which even has not the command of the Western part of the Continent of Europe. 7 —that all the other Potentates, without any attention to their situation, relations, and wants, should willingly deprive them selves of the benefit of commerce, and forego the necessaries of life and comfOrt, raise and consign to destru&ion the surplus produce of their countries, and give up the resources which industry 'and navi gation procure, is a pretension extravagant and impra&icable in foreign dominions, and unjust and tyrannical at home. It is well known, that ports are the sources' of the wealth of States, and the channels through which specie and all articles both of necessity and superfluity pass. If this entry to public prosperity be shut to mankind, they will be restriaed to the bare prOduce of their soil, and be, through the want of specie, reduced to indi gence. Without this specie they cannot be brought to raise, keep up their armies, proje& and achieve conquests ; it has therefore been ever wisely said, that that Power would command the Continent which could hold the dominion of the seas, and whose navigation and commerce would at the same time flourish. In despite of these gl,tring truths, France has for these 19 years past never ceased pro- .. jeding ridiculous, chimerical, and impradicable enterprizes.—She has had the levity to declare the Continent bloCkaded to the English, before she had secured the possession of the CoastS of Europe. This novelty captivated all the credulous insensate admirers of fantastic extravagance, whilst it met with condign derision from the Statesman ' and the reileding mind. In faa, the report of TAL LEYRAND, the approhation of the Senate, and the imperiOus Decree of BUONAPARTE on this particular, are illustrious subjeas of farce, and precious stuff for the pen of Playwrights. And, indeed, what elin there be imagined more preposterous and ludicrous, than to decree, whilst engaged in a hazardous contest and warfare with Russia, Sweden, and Prussia, unpos sessed of the free controul of Denmark, Spain, Au stria, Portugal, and Turkey, and even before the redudion of Calabria, and the expulsion tram the Adriatic and the Mediterranean of the POPE and the Queen Regent of ETRURIAi that the whole Continent should shut up its ports, to the English, sacrifice its commerce and interests, and barely because NAPOLEON is pleased to ordain it so ? He has however Ordained it, and the exalted imagination of the sanguine and visionary French, already saw the English Navy annihilated, and Bri.7 tain crushed. What sad picaures did they not make of their si tuation ! Inalion, famine, discontents,. and Lions were. successively agitating Great Britain ; there were who in positive anticipation already beheld King GEORGE humiliated, and. soliciting Peace pro strate on his knees before the hero of the age, and the arbiter of the destinies. So vast is the influence of error in the realms of ignorance !. But the ill fated, proscribed English, so far from retrograding, have made still greater strides to wealth and power, whilst in France and Spaiti specie vanished, and even the opulent began to feel themselves constrained to assimilate their regime to that of porters and coal- heavers. The Colonies, both Spanish -and French, were by this Decree openly put to 'the verge of revolu tion, anti driven to the necessity of consulting for their independence. The Allies, who derive their whole support :from commerce, to prevent their ruin, were forced to renounce the prote6tion and alliance of .NAPC;I:EON ; their armies were on the eve of falling to pieces and dispersing for want of means to keep them together; destitute of conr,i modities, and unable even to convey them, their maritime forces being reduced _or overawed, the Inhabitants of America were on the point --of bemg' driven' to the necessity . of operling their ports to the English. This projea then has .been monstrously absurd : BUONAPARTE was no doubt aware, that, they could not be the meansof wresting, the trident from the hands of England, or of releasing the ports from their . blockade, or of taking recipro-vengeance : it • was too clear to him that England -had the forces to block us up, and that he had none to prevent it. But lie had noblei• objeas in view : the Continent • was to be partitioned between his Family, and this expedient was by him conceived to be .the most effectual way to conceal his scheme from the French, who were to be dragged to the shambles like beasts to be slaughtered. And thus he masked, under the, veil of national interest; the ill-disguised one of his own family. This Decree has been nn ohccnre of the premeditated articles of the Peace of Tilsit and of the division of Europe into ti.ve Empires) of which he, the proje&or, was for the present to seize that which would extend in one line. from the mouth-of the Vistula to Corfu, - confined icy other direaions by the Baltic, the Ocean, the Me diterranean, and the Adriatic; Russia was to hold the remainder. Necessarily must there have entered into the consummation of this prole&, the subjuga tion of Spain, Portugal, Etruria, the States of the Church, the Hanseatic Towns and Denmark, and finally Austria, which yet remained to be pared down. These were all comprehended in the De cree of the Continental Blockade, which was the 'plausible means of colouring the entrance of his armies into Spain, preceded by Proclamations, de claring; that they came solely for the purpose of compelling the common enemy to keep withiti his own bounds, and inducing him to a Mari time Peace. The French entered upon the stage, and began to net. They no sooner had obtained desired footing, than the mask was thrown off, and rapine ,and desolation or Chiefs and Cohorts became . the order of the day. The English, without, com parison more sagacious and wise than the French, have seen and predicted in the execution of the Decree.of the Blockade of the Continent, the over throw of the monstrous Empire of Fiance, and the emancipation of Europe ; they have saved their Al lies, and consigned other Nations to the lessons of experience ; and, in fad, they have all been unde ceived ; they have unanimously resolved to throw off their shackles ; they have disclosed their semi-' meats; 'and thrown open their Ports to the English , who, with a generosity equal to their power, have dispensed to them unreserved aid; the comnie nication having been opened, they find that Great Britain stands more flourishing, undaunted , and exalted before them. Let them blush at their credulity to the French; let them consign to the flames their fallacious, seduelive papers, and for ever disclaim their friendships. Struck with shame, they acknowledge the error of - their adherence, and Ira/ everlasting friendship to Great Britain. LOTTERIES. Two Reports from the Committee of the 1-rotl#! of' Commons, appointed to ascertain to what - degre e the laws passed for the purpose of obviating th e mischiefs attendant upon Lotteries have operated/ I have been published. In the first Report, the Coo' mittee propose the following Resolutioni:- Ist. It is their opinion, that in case it shall be though t expedient to continue State Lotteries, they should be - limi teo to two yearly, of not more than 30,000 tickets each ; that ' s days of drawing should be eight instead of ten, and that number oftickets to be drawn should be kept secret till dose of ibedrawing each day, care being taken that too toPPg shall not be left to be drawn on the latter days. 2dly. That no persons sho uld be p e rmitted to deal In t•°., tery tickets, except those who...take out a licence, and OOP Agents. 3 ,11 y. That to prevent persons setting up Lottery Office:l as a cloak fbr carrying on illegal insurances, no person shou., be entitle.: to a licence unless he shared one hundred and MP tickets, instead of thirty, the present number. 4thly. That all Lottery Offices should, not be permitted to do business before eight o'clock in the rooming, or after eiglag o'clock in the evening.. • sally. That the pradice of illuminating Lottery Offices , for outside slim, exhibiting Lottery bills and schemes u p hoards, carts, or carriages, in town or country, should IA r subjected, on conviction, to a considerable - penalty, or tb e 7, party imprisoned for a limited period. . - 6thly. That the exemption of Lottery Office-keeper; frcT 3 the jarisdietion of lustices of the Pease, and Police MAO' trees, should be discontinued As inexpedient. In the second Report, the Committee enter more particulatilty into a consideration' of the ill effetts o f Lotteries-, and appear to think that it is impossible to devise any,system of regulations to render therP an efficient source of revenue, and, at the same tiro° . divest them of all the evils and calamities of which it has hitherto proved so baneful a source. It says OP punishments inflided by the statutes upon offenderl aaainst the Lotter Ads, fall on the ignorant sp 9 the destitute, whilst the wealthy offenders hold,theP i r in utter. .contempt. The effects of the Lottery, und e a its present rettriaions, idleness, dissipation, 0 0 - poverty, have materially increased, sacred and coo" ' tidentiA trusts are betrayed, domektic comfort is stroyed, madness is often created, 'crimes„ subjea:: ing the perpetrators of them to the puniShment 0) , death, and even suicide itself, are committed, o' fully appear by evidence submitted to the Cony mittee. Such fatal attendants upon State Lotterie this Committee are afraid will always continue, s° long as State Lotteries are permitted to exist. 1 . 1 . 1: Committee conclude with their opinion, that 0 5 .. money paid to Government by the Contraaors not equivalent to the distress occasioned to inani persons, ultimately forced, to apply: for parochial r e " • lief. A few days since a robbery, singular for its flo" dacity, was perpetrated at the stores belonging to 14 china-merchant in Temple-lane, Dublin. Two lei' lows, 'leading a horse and car; stopped opposite tl' ° premises between eight and nine o'clock in the moto' ing, and with much composure unlocked the door 01 the stores, from whence,without the least appearan ce of hurry or alarm, they proceeded to remove a larg crate . of earthenware ; finding it, .however, some" `what too ponderons to' he lifted with facility ()1; : the cart, and perceiving a groom employed in ' avocation at an adjoining stable, the villains ha d to 'consummate impudence to request .hiS'asSistance) bn which they quickly accomplished the business,wh e , thanking him for his aid; and wishing. him goo, v inorrow, they deliberately bore off their booty Wid l , s' •' ,turbed and unsuspected. cORN-EXCHANGE, AUG. 18.—The supplies Theet this day are short, but the trade is dull 1` N\ , sale, and past prices are hardly supported; 8ar1 . ) 4 and ' Maltare each rather cheaper ; W kite Pe ase a again lower ; Grey also ; Beans of the tw o kinds likewise; the quantity of Oats on hand are co_ considerable, and this trade is named at little ','aria tion ; Flour fully at the quotation. 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